tight-arsed

It sounded like he was lecturing him on not being so tight-arsed.

Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

It sounded like he was lecturing him on not being so tight-arsed.

Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

It sounded like he was lecturing him on not being so tight-arsed.

Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

In short, the England of the late 1950s was a society which was tight-arsed and morally restrictive to a degree which young people today would find hard to believe.

More about changes in the culture Michael Allen 2005

It's a good thing brother Ashcroft has joined the holy order of the has-beens, because you might have had to exorcize his churlish, tight-arsed sprites too.

WARNER TWELVE'S FIRST THREE TEV 2005

Suffice it to say here that in the 1950s the English were, as I put it, 'tight-arsed and morally restrictive to a degree which young people today would find hard to believe.

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot Michael Allen 2005

Those of us who live in the wonderful world of the twenty-first century are inclined to forget, even if we were alive then, just how prudish and tight-arsed the English were in the 1950s.

Nude Ego and Roye Michael Allen 2004

And it is rather different from the tight-arsed attitude which is embodied in traditional copyright law, observance of every letter of which is insisted upon by the paranoid writers of this world on the one hand, and, of course, big business on the other.

Archive 2004-06-01 Michael Allen 2004

Those of us who live in the wonderful world of the twenty-first century are inclined to forget, even if we were alive then, just how prudish and tight-arsed the English were in the 1950s.

Archive 2004-04-01 Michael Allen 2004

And it is rather different from the tight-arsed attitude which is embodied in traditional copyright law, observance of every letter of which is insisted upon by the paranoid writers of this world on the one hand, and, of course, big business on the other.

Stealing it and giving it away Michael Allen 2004